440 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJX. [ Conostylis. 
Australia. King George's Sound, Menzies ; agian river, pida poe. 
Pg the same (district, ee d, n. 349; pug river, mmo nd, 1 
C. ensifolia, C. occulta, 
' from the neighbourhood of Cope Riche, and C. he ie a, Endl. 1 Kc Da ting 
Ped x F i 
u E 
Shorter ben the tube. Preiss’s oe n in Herb. F. Mueller is in old fruit only with 
he 
s worn B. Ms C. occulta the lobes are said to be equal to the tube, but in 
i y are seo longer than the fo and in all the above suppress 
30. C. caricina, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 45. Stems very short 
densely tufted, the tufts sometimes almost bulbous. Leaves gen 
0 
lowers few in the head, sessile or nearly so, the bracts linear. 
Perianth about 3 in. b Jona plumose-tomentose outside glabrous pes. 
lobes narrow, 3 times as long as the very short free part of the tu 
Anthers linear, on hae thick filaments. Placentas prominently ef 
tate, the ovules numerous, covering the whole front as in other species 
of Euconostylis d reflexed "S as in Catospora.— Endl. in Pl. Preiss. 
ii. 19; C. grami : 
Ww. festi gm river, Pe diae. 1st coll., Preiss, n. 1380, 1385. 
SE . ANDROSTEMMA.—Peri — tubular above the ovary, the 
: all equal and narrow. Filaments erect, filiform, much onger 
n the anthers. Ovules rather numerous, bordering the peltate 
sicot: 
he long perianths buried caus adde the leaves iac surrounded bys scarious bracts give 
this plant a peculiar — , whic ify ishing it as & 
separate genus. But subsequent discoveries have apro a nearly similar habit, foli. 
racts in C. i i i he leaves in C. 
iata and C. seorsiflora, and nearly similar stamens in C. setosa; there remains as 
a distinct character only the lenta, which uelis it as a section of the same 
as the three preceding 
ostemma, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 19. Leafy stems short 
much branched, forming dense tufts of a few inches. Leaves with short 
fattened, pr bases, itr ag c and rush-like, terete or d 
ix long, à all equal and ees bong at the time of yore] 
Filaments filiform and erect, nearly as e as the perianth-lobes; 
‘anthers several times shorter. Style as long as the stamens. Capsule 
half-superior, but little broader than the perianth at the time of flower- 
